No Small Bills [Kindle Edition]

Aaron Rosenberg (Author)

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Product Description

DuckBob Spinowitz has a problem. It isn’t the fact that he has the head of a duck—the abduction was years ago and he’s learned to live with it. But now those same aliens are back, and they claim they need his help! Apparently creatures from another reality are invading the universe, and only DuckBob can reset the device that maintains the barrier between dimensions. He reluctantly agrees to help, but how can a man whose only talents are bird calls and bad jokes, and whose only work experience is punching random buttons on a computer in a standard cubicle, be expected to save the universe?

No Small Bills is the hilarious new science fiction novel from award-winning, bestselling author Aaron Rosenberg, who has written books for Eureka, Star Trek, WarCraft, and many others, and is also the author of the rousing Dread Remora space-opera series for Crossroad Press.

About the Author

Aaron Rosenberg is the award-winning, bestselling author of the humorous science fiction novel No Small Bills, the space-opera series The Dread Remora, the occult thriller Indefinite Renewal, and many more. He's written tie-in novels (including the PsiPhi winner Collective Hindsight for Star Trek: SCE, the Daemon Gates trilogy for Warhammer, Tides of Darkness and (with Christie Golden) the Scribe-nominated Beyond the Dark Portal for WarCraft, Hunt and Run for Stargate: Atlantis, and Substitution Method and The Road Less Traveled for Eureka), children's books (including an original series, Pete and Penny's Pizza Puzzles, and work for PowerPuff Girls and Transformers Animated), roleplaying games (including original games like Asylum and Spookshow, the Origins Award-winning Gamemastering Secrets, and sections of The Supernatural Roleplaying Game, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and The Deryni Roleplaying Game), young adult novels (including the Scribe-winning Bandslam: The Novel and books for iCarly and Ben10), short stories, webcomics, essays, and educational books. He has ranged from mystery to speculative fiction to drama to comedy, always with the same intent--to tell a good story. You can visit him online at gryphonrose.com or follow him on Twitter at gryphonrose.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 784 KB
• Publisher: Crazy 8 Press (September 13, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005MYWRJG
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,762 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

AARON ROSENBERG is the award-winning, bestselling author of the humorous science fiction novel No Small Bills, the space-opera series The Dread Remora, the occult thriller Indefinite Renewal, and many more. He's written tie-in novels (including the PsiPhi winner Collective Hindsight for Star Trek: SCE, the Daemon Gates trilogy for Warhammer, Tides of Darkness and (with Christie Golden) the Scribe-nominated Beyond the Dark Portal for WarCraft, Hunt and Run for Stargate: Atlantis, and Substitution Method and The Road Less Traveled for Eureka), children's books (including an original series, Pete and Penny's Pizza Puzzles, and work for PowerPuff Girls and Transformers Animated), roleplaying games (including original games like Asylum and Spookshow, the Origins Award-winning Gamemastering Secrets, and sections of The Supernatural Roleplaying Game, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and The Deryni Roleplaying Game), young adult novels (including the Scribe-winning Bandslam: The Novel and books for iCarly and Ben10), short stories, webcomics, essays, and educational books. He has ranged from mystery to speculative fiction to drama to comedy, always with the same intent--to tell a good story. You can visit him online at gryphonrose.com or follow him on Twitter at gryphonrose.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really Fun!, September 19, 2011

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J. Dambeck "Jenny3k" (NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Small Bills (Kindle Edition)

This book is really fun and funny! I recommend it. Love the narrative voice and the flow of the story.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and silly, September 17, 2011

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Alex Kolker - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Small Bills (Kindle Edition)

If you're looking for some wacky light reading, this book is for you. Duck Bob has a series of misadventures across the universe -- whisked along in events beyond his understanding, much like Arthur Dent in Hitchhiker's Guide. But unlike Arthur, Bob faces all the weirdness with good ol' American spunk. Bob's narration is the best part of this book -- half Mickey Spillane and half Woody Allen. Definitely great reading for a rainy Sunday afternoon.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every Duck Has His Day, October 26, 2011

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Philip P. Giunta - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Small Bills (Kindle Edition)

DuckBob Spinowitz is your average Joe--er, Bob, and compliments of the Gray aliens he had been modified with the head and plumage of--you guessed it--a duck.

As it turns out, his physical modification was no mere experiment of curiosity as DuckBob learns when he is pressed into service by the Gray aliens and the NSA on a matter of galactic security. For only DuckBob can realign the quantum fluctuation matrix to prevent an alien incursion from an alternate reality!

Say what?

Aaron Rosenberg channels Douglas Adams, Monthy Python, and Henson's Creature Shop (and silly string) in a hilarious, ludicrous escapade through outer space, intraspace, and ultraspace. Teamed with an irritable NSA agent, a squat broccoli-headed alien repairman, and a gorgeous human female mission leader (who was also modified by the Grays but only intellectually, to DuckBob's delight), our feathered and billed hero sets off across the galaxy and manages to enrage flower loving dinosaurs, cause an interstellar bus accident (punishable by losing his ability to see the color mauve), and confront a six-inch tall shrimp with a death ray gun on a protected ocean planet after falling off a speeding bridge.

You had to be there.

As a result, DuckBob and his team wind up in prison and sentenced to two hundred years of hard labor including telemarketing, stuffing envelopes, and filling bags of marshmallows. But they manage a daring escape, picking up two more characters along the way and it isn't long before they're back on course to the Galactic Core where the quantum fluctuation matrix awaits realignment. Of course, the preposterous challenges don't end there!

I read No Small Bills over two evenings and two lunch hours at work. There are few slow moments, mostly limited to DuckBob's occassional comedic introspection, yet the pacing is consistent and the dialogue witty. Rosenberg demonstrates a wild imagination and clever storytelling in a book suitable for YA and adults alike.

Remember, every duck has his day.